Barge Haulers on the Volga

Ilya Repin

Painted

1870–73

Collection

State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Eleven men trudge along a sandbank of the Volga hauling a barge by rope. Repin spent a summer on the river getting to know them and gave each a different face, from the exhausted old man to the youth adjusting his strap. It announced the beginning of Russian Realism.

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